gate.creole.ontology
Interface DatatypeProperty

All Superinterfaces:

OResource, RDFProperty

public interface DatatypeProperty
extends RDFProperty

Interface for datatype properties. Datatype properties have as range values datatype values (different from object properties which have instances as values). Values are Java objects.

Author:

Niraj Aswani

Method Summary

DataType	getDataType() This method returns the DataType set for this property
Set<OResource>	getDomain() Returns the set of domain restrictions for this property.
boolean	isValidDataTypeValue(String value) Checks whether the provided datatype value is compatible with the DataType restrictions on the property.
boolean	isValidDomain(OInstance anInstance) Checks whether the provided instance is compatible with the domain restrictions on the property.

Methods inherited from interface gate.creole.ontology.RDFProperty

addSubProperty, getEquivalentPropertyAs, getOURI, getRange, getSubProperties, getSubProperties, getSuperProperties, getSuperProperties, isEquivalentPropertyAs, isFunctional, isInverseFunctional, isSubPropertyOf, isSubPropertyOf, isSuperPropertyOf, isSuperPropertyOf, isValidDomain, isValidRange, removeSubProperty, setEquivalentPropertyAs, setFunctional, setInverseFunctional

Methods inherited from interface gate.creole.ontology.OResource

addAnnotationPropertyValue, getAllSetProperties, getAnnotationPropertyValues, getComment, getComments, getLabel, getLabels, getName, getONodeID, getOntology, getPropertiesWithResourceAsDomain, getPropertiesWithResourceAsRange, getSetAnnotationProperties, getURI, hasAnnotationPropertyWithValue, removeAnnotationPropertyValue, removeAnnotationPropertyValues, setComment, setLabel, setURI

Method Detail

getDomain

Set<OResource> getDomain()

Returns the set of domain restrictions for this property.

Specified by:

getDomain in interface RDFProperty

Returns:

getDataType

DataType getDataType()

This method returns the DataType set for this property

Returns:

isValidDataTypeValue

boolean isValidDataTypeValue(String value)

Checks whether the provided datatype value is compatible with the DataType restrictions on the property.

Parameters:

aValue - the Value

Returns:

true if this datatype value is compatible with the DataType restrictions on the property. False otherwise.

isValidDomain

boolean isValidDomain(OInstance anInstance)

Checks whether the provided instance is compatible with the domain restrictions on the property.

Parameters:

anInstance - the Instance

Returns:

true if this instance is compatible with the domain restrictions on the property. False otherwise.